Fred Sandback

(American, 1943–2003)

untitled, from a set of twenty-two constructions from 1967 by fred sandback

Fred Sandback

Untitled, from a set of Twenty-Two Constructions from 1967, 1986

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Fred Sandback

Untitled, 1979

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Fred Sandback

Untitled, 1984

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Fred Sandback

Untitled, 1988

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small gold diagonal by fred sandback

Fred Sandback

Small Gold Diagonal, 1974

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Fred Sandback

Untitled, ca. 1970

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Fred Sandback

Untitled, 1975

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Fred Sandback

Untitled, 1977

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Biography

Timeline

1943
Born August 29th in Bronxville, NY
1957 - 1961
attended Williston Academy, Easthampton, Massachusetts
1961
attended Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Heilbronn
1962 - 1966
received BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1966 - 1969
received MFA, Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
1968
First exhibition at the Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, and the Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
2003
Died June 23rd

Exhibitions

2019
Fred Sandback Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Fred Sandback and Josef Albers, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston
Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Walking Through Walls, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2018
Fred Sandback Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Fred Sandback. Cardi Gallery, Milan (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback. Galería Cayón, Menorca (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback. Fortes d'Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback: Le fil d'Occam. Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback: Sculpture. Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey (solo exhibition)
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London
Dancing with Myself - Works from the Pinault Collection, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice
A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Walking Through Walls, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Flat Out: Works on Paper, 1960-2000, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
The Elephant in the Room: Sculptures of the Marx Collection and of the Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Flavin, Judd, McCracken, Sandback, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., National Gallery of Singapore
2017
Fred Sandback Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Fred Sandback. A Sampling of Works, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Ontario (solo exhibition)
Lucio Fontana y Fred Sandback, Galería Cayón, Madrid (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback - Pedestrian Space, Venet Foundation, Le Muy, France (solo exhibition)
Primary Structures. Masterworks of Minimal Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
The American Dream: pop to the present, British Museum, London
Into the third Dimension: Spatial Concepts on Paper from the Bauhaus to the Preset, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Cholet-New York, kamel mennour, Paris
Minimal Art from the Marzona Collection, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Ely House, London
Ways of Seeing, Arter, Istanbul [itinerary: Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels; NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery]
Formasobrefondo, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Vom Raum an die Wand: Bildhauergrafik/Of the Space on the Wall: Sculptural Graphics, Kunstmuseum Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany
Thea Djordjadze. Inventur SGSM, Pinakothek der Moderne, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich
A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection, 1944-1989, MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt [itinerary: Museo de Art Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires]
2016
Fred Sandback Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Fred Sandback: The Properties of Light, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (solo exhibition)
Dan Flavin, Fred Sandback, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
Fred Sandback: Vertical Constructions, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (solo exhibition)
Arrangements, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York
Line, Lisson Gallery, London
Now/Here, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, Vienna
Architecture of Life, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Between the Eyes, Sotheby's, London (curated exhibition)
Structure and Space, Christie’s, New York
Malerei im Wandel: Die Sammlung Ploner, Neue Galerie Graz
Vanishing Point, Ratio 3, San Francisco
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York
From Point to Line, Senior and Shopmaker, New York
Zeichnungsräume: Positionen zeitgenösscher Graphik, Hamburger Kunsthalle. Part I: April 30—October 30, 2016; Part II: November 25, 2016—May 21, 2017 Muse, Cinnabar Gallery, San Antonio
Inhabiting Space, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Keep Your Eyes Open, Lulin + Ferrari, Zürich
Die Sprache der Dinge: Materialgeschichten aus der Sammlung, 21er Haus, Vienna
Open Spaces/Secret Places. Works from The Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York
In Between, Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo
Cut, Folded, Pressed & Other Actions, David Zwirner, New York
Rhona Hoffman: Forty Years, Part 1 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
From Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Works on Paper, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio
Primary structures and speculative forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Van Rodin tot Bourgeois: Sculptuur in de 20ste Eeuw, Haags Gementemuseum, The Hague
Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami
2015
Fred Sandback Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Fred Sandback and Annemarie Verna Galerie: A Collaboration, 1971-2003, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback, 64 Three-Part Pieces, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback: Prints, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka. June 5–27, 2015; Traveled to Gallery Shilla, Daegue, Korea (solo exhibition)
Sandback: Light, Space, Facts, Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback: Prints from the 1970s, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback: Prints, 1970-2000, Sims Reed Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback: Druckgraphik, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Manheim (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo exhibition)
Light/Dark, White/Black, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Steve Dennie and Fred Sandback, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
Le Fil Rouge, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich; Travled to Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris; and Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Schön, euch zu sehen! 160 Werke aus der Sammlung / Nice to See You! 160 Works from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Selbstjustiz durch Fehleinkaeufe: Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung Falckenbergm 2011-2014, Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg
Chaste Paper, Sotheby’s, New York
Galerie de l’Epoque, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Selections from the Kramarsky Collection, David Zwirner, New York
Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Capricci del Destino, Galleria Giuseppe Pero, Milan
Future Present. Emanuel Hoffman-Stiftung: Zeitgenössische Kunst von der Klassischen Moderne bis Heute / Future Present. Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation Contemporary Art from Classic Modernism to the Present Day, Schaulager, Basel
Summer Group Exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Transparency, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Masse Critique, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
A-Z, Die Sammlung Marzona, #7/9 STU, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Lighght, Super Dakota, Brussels
Imagining Space: Constructions of Text and Geometry, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Überzeichnen. Von Basel Aus, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Essential: The Line, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich
Equal Dimensions, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2014
Fred Sandback Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Fred Sandback: Drawings, Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Traveled to Josef Albers Museum Bottrop (titled Fred Sandback. Zeichnungen und Skulpturen); Museum Wiesbaden (solo exhibition)
Fred Sandback, Galería Cayón, Madrid (solo exhibition)
Prints: Flavin, Judd, Sandback, David Zwirner, New York
Jakob Gasteiger, Stefan Gritsch, Fred Sandback, Michael Toenges, Peter Tollens, Margarete Roeder Gallery, Cologne
Couples/Duos, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts
Nichts ist Kunst, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Vienna
Conceptual Space. Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Markus Michalke, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin
Vertiges de la Peinture, Maison des Arts, Grand Quevilly, France
Minimum: When Attitudes Become Form, Gesso Artspace, Vienna
Sharing Space, David Zwirner, The Upper Room, London
Aus der Spur der Erfindung: Bildhauer zeichenen, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Myth/History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum, Shanghai
Leitlinien. Die Kunst des Zeichnens von Arnold Bocklin bis Richard Tuttle, Bunder Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Love Story: Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna
Octopus 14: Nothing Beside Remains, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
N. Dash, David Keating, Jens Risch, Fred Sandback, Bischoff Projects, Frankfurt
On Paper, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Solides Fragiles, MUDAM, Luxembourg City
Märk Linjen, Goteborgs Konsthall
Beauty of Indifference, Lullin Ferrari, Zürich
2013
Fred Sandback Exhibitions 2013
Fred Sandback: Sculptures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fred Sandback, David Zwirner, London
Fred Sandback: Selected Print, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2012
Fred Sandback Exhibitions 2012
Fred Sandback: Corner Constructions, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich
Master Drawings New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, NY
Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NY
Fred Sandback: Decades- Works 1969 – 2000. David Zwirner, New York, NY
Something Along those Lines, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum,Washington University, Missouri
Fred Sandback Exhibitions 2010
Fred Sandback, Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio
Fred Sandback, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Modern Times: Responding to Chaos, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England
Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Fred Sandback, Enrico Castellani, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, LA
Sculptors and their Graphic Works, Kunstmuseum, Liechenstein
Sell and Repent, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Fred Sandback, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro & Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fred Sandback, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
Fred Sandback: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
On Line, Drawing through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2011
Fred Sandback Exhibitions 2011
Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960- 75, Zieher Smith, New York, NY
Fred Sandback, Akira Ikeda, Berlin
Fred Sandback, White Chapel Art Gallery, London
Fred Sandback, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado
Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Feeling of Things, FRAC, Ile de France Le Plateau, Paris

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York